If we let the disease run its course, it will disfigure Tom beyond recognition.
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Disfigure
//dɪsˈfɪɡə//
Synonyms for "disfigure" (43 found)
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5 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesderived
5 entriesTranslations
52 translations across 27 languages.
Bulgarian
4 entries- обезобразя verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
- обезобразявам verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
- обезформя verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
- обезформявам verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
Carpathian Rusyn
4 entries- начудациц verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
- очудациц verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
- скалїчиц ше verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
- чудациц verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
Catalan
1 entries- desfigurar verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 變醜 /变丑 verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
Danish
2 entries- skamfere verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
- vansire verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
Eastern Mari
1 entries- каргаш verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
Esperanto
3 entries- deformi verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
- disaspektigi verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
- misformi verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
Faroese
4 entries- avskepla verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
- løsta verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
- lýta verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
- meiðsla verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
Finnish
2 entries- runnella verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
- turmella verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
French
1 entries- défigurer verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
German
2 entries- entstellen verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
- verunstalten verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐍅𐌰𐍂𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
Ingrian
1 entries- muglia verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
Irish
2 entries- ainimhigh verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
- máchailigh verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
Italian
1 entries- sfigurare verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
Japanese
1 entries- 醜くする verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
Latin
1 entries- dēturpō verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
Macedonian
1 entries- изобличи verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- بوزمق verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
Polish
4 entries- oszpecać verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
- oszpecić verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
- zniekształcać verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
- zniekształcić verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
Portuguese
1 entries- desfigurar verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
Russian
2 entries- изуро́довать verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
- уро́довать verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- izobličiti verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
- unakaziti verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
Spanish
1 entries- desfigurar verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
Swedish
1 entries- vanställa verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
Tagalog
2 entries- despigurahin verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
- papangitin verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
Welsh
1 entries- hagru verb (to damage something's appearance or functionality)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Yanni went to great lengths to disfigure Skura's body.
Source: tatoeba (9687499)
How one must hate one's language in order to disfigure it like that!
Source: tatoeba (10670835)
His face was disfigured by a terrible fire many years ago, leaving deep scars across his crooked nose.
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